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Bentley's family is the subject of the reality show Rolling with the Royces. With the threat of cancellation, Bentley realizes the show is what's holding her family together--and she has to save it.

Superheroes have always been Leia Birch Briggs' weakness. One tequila-soaked night at a comics convention, the usually level-headed graphic novelist is swept off her barstool by a handsome and anonymous Batman. It turns out the caped crusader has left her with more than just a nice, fuzzy memory. She's having a baby boy.

A family building a life in a new land. A man who has never felt at home anywhere. And a choice to be made between the two. Dr. Trisha Raje is San Francisco's most acclaimed neurosurgeon. But that's not enough for her influential immigrant family who achieved power by making its own strict rules, of which Trisha has broken all. But what will she do now that she has met chef Caine, who came from rough beginnings?

As Cassie Fitzgerald is about to discover, there's more to the holidays on the west coast of Ireland than mistletoe and mince pies. But the more she's drawn into the festivities leading up to her first Irish Christmas, the more questions she wants to ask about her family and about the handsome, funny, smart Shay. As Christmas Eve approaches, it's Cassie, the outsider, who reminds the locals what the season is really about. But will her own fractured family rediscover the joys of coming home?

Hanna Casey has big plans to start a cinema club, showing movies based on popular novels her friends and neighbors love. But the drama that soon unfolds in this close-knit seaside village rivals any on the screen.

Emily Starr is orphaned after her father dies and is sent to live with her snobbish Aunt Elizabeth at New Moon Farms. It is not long before she starts to make new friends, and slowly grows to love her new family and the amazing New Moon Farm.

We meet Julie several weeks after her suicide attempt, on the eve of her son's first birthday. Grateful to be alive, Julie tries her best to appreciate every moment. She has, for whatever reason, been given a second chance, but her emotional demons are unrelenting, and she is slowly and quietly losing the battle.

Chloe Cates, the thirteen-year-old star of the hit web series CC and Me, has disappeared, and nobody knows where she's gone--least of all ruthless momager Jennifer Scarborough, who has spent much of her daughter's young life crafting a child celebrity persona that is finally beginning to pay off. And in Chloe's absence, the faux-fairytale world that supported that persona begins to fracture, revealing secrets capable of reducing the dysfunctional Scarborough family to rubble.

It is 1938 in China and, as a young wife, Meilin's future is bright. But with the Japanese army approaching, Meilin and her four year old son, Renshu, are forced to flee their home. Relying on little but their wits and a beautifully illustrated hand scroll, filled with ancient fables that offer solace and wisdom, they must travel through a ravaged country, seeking refuge. Years later, Renshu has settled in America as Henry Dao. Though his daughter is desperate to understand her heritage, he refuses to talk about his childhood.

When Susie suddenly dies, her sister Camilla receives a bundle of letters instructing her to visit a place special to Susie, both to spread her ashes but also to uncover some truths Susie has long kept hidden from her family.